Sneak peek at the 2016 Field Report

Today the 2016 Field Report was sent to the printer.
Here's a sneak peek at the front cover!

I hope to see crew and Friends at the report day on 12 November.

Hard at work editing the Field Report

Preparing for Battle

The Layout... (Mary for scale)

Likely Dates...

Here are the most likely dates for the 2016/2017 Field Season:


Field Report Day:  Saturday, November 12 in the afternoon at Melbourne Museum.
Rookies' Training Day: Sunday, November 20 at Flat Rocks.
ETRW Field Season: Saturday, February 4 to Saturday, February 25.


Friend's day at ETRW during the dig (probably Sunday, February 19).

Planning for the 2017 Field Season

Planning for a Field Season starts a long way in advance.  Tom Rich and Dave Pickering have been thinking about it for some time, and the first meeting of a few key organisers is scheduled for this weekend.  I expect we'll propose dates for our rookie training day and the ETRW season, and decide what to duplicate or change about such thing as equipment, transportation, fossil protection, and feeding/housing the crew.  I'll let you know if anything gets decided afterwards.

Article about Tom and our dig in The Monthly

Check it out at https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2016/may/1462024800/chloe-hooper/dinosaur-digger.

Travis's penguins in The Age.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/museum-victoria-and-monash-university-discover-more-about-extinct-giant-penguins-20160427-gogdc6.html

Travis tells of giant penguins

Check out the blog of Dinosaur Dreamer Travis Park as he talks about his new paper on Australia's penguins: http://www.scilogs.com/blogozoic/penguins-down-under-a-lost-world/